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Terence Halpin says gun attack on his west Belfast home was a bid to kill | |
(about 2 hours later) | |
A man whose family escaped injury in a shotgun attack on their west Belfast home on Tuesday has said it was an attempt 'to kill'. | |
Terence Halpin, 62, his 57-year-old wife and their 27-year-old son were all in their house in Tollnamona Court when shots were fired at their front door. | |
All three were upstairs asleep when the attack took place at about 02:00 BST. | |
He said the shots "travelled the length of the house from front to back" and embedded in their fridge and wall. | |
"Anybody in the hall, or anybody near it would have been killed," Mr Halpin said. | |
He said they have never experienced any trouble in the area before now. | |
He added that the family were "baffled" by the shooting, which had come "totally out of the blue". | |
Mr Halpin said they would not be forced to move out of their home by the people who carried out the attack. | |
Police have visited the scene of the shooting and have appealed for witnesses to contact them. |
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